The Seiki Scheduler helps take the time, complexity and errors out of advanced manufacturing planning and scheduling. Maximise capacity utilisation of your critical production resources to improve productivity, make smarter decisions and work more economically.
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One of the key features of the software, that makes it easy to use and simple to learn, is the interactive graphical planning views. They provide a fast visual summary of the loading of all active orders and the essential production information of individual operations.
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Your actual capacity is taken into account from the moment you start to plan, helping you to work leaner. For example, stock levels are reduced as materials are only ordered when required, and operations are only scheduled when resources are available. And you can make adjustments in real time.
The system helps take the time, complexity and errors out of planning with built-in rules that apply a sequencing logic when scheduling works orders to produce the most effective baseline schedule. You can then harness the experience and insight of your planning team to refine and make adjustments to the plan.
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The Scheduler provides you with a visual and quantifiable assessment of the impact of any changes to your overall performance and allows you to take corrective measures to minimise the effects. Create and analyse ‘What-If’ scenarios before committing to the one that meets your priorities.
Simple colour coding provides a clear visual indicator of the status of current WIP. Together the Deviations and Impact columns show the number of days that the works order will be late by and how much that has increased or decreased by as a consequence of the changes you make on the planning board – instant feedback on whether you’ve made an improvement or not. You’ll be able to see the live ripple effects of any operations not starting on time
The Seiki Scheduler also allows you to create and manage works orders directly in the system, which means you don’t have to have an ERP or other business management system to experience the benefits of advanced planning and scheduling. In fact, without any interfacing requirements, it means you can get up and running even faster.
Within the Production Orders module, you have the ability to create individual works orders or template part records that contain master operation details & routing information. The latter is particularly useful for quickly generating repeat orders.
If you subcontract operations, you can also manage a list of suppliers in the Scheduler. Individual operations can then be assigned to an ‘External Resource’ workplace, selecting the appropriate supplier from the list.
Let our experts take you through the key principles of our planning and scheduling software module.
Deliver digital work queues and capture the live status of work-in-progress to help improve adherence to plan
View the live status of your resources and analyse planned vs actual setup and run times
Deliver complete production data sets for each operation to the operator on the shopfloor
